Nonsense : red herrings, straw men, and sacred cows : how we abuse logic in our everyday language
A handbook of the myriad ways we go about being illogical - how we deceive others and ourselves, how we think and argue in ways that are disorderly, disorganized, or irrelevant.
xii, 248 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
9780975366264, 9780966190854, 0975366262, 0966190858
71350298
Everyday nonsense
Emotional language
Emotional language: propaganda
Emotional language: suggestion
Logical fallacies
Irrelevance
Diversion
Ambiguity and incorrect inference
Confusion and incorrect inference
Confusion of cause and effect
Oversimplification
Erroneous comparison and contrast
Evasion
More on arguments
More on semantics
More on the syllogism
Final note